NFL Announces 32 Compensatory Draft Choices to 16 Clubs

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NFL Announces 32 Compensatory Draft Choices to 16 Clubs

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​NFL ANNOUNCES 32
COMPENSATORY DRAFT CHOICES TO 16 CLUBS

A total of 32 compensatory choices in the 2017 NFL Draft
have been awarded to 16 teams, the NFL announced today.

Under the rules for compensatory draft selections, a team
losing more or better compensatory free agents than it acquires in the
previous year is eligible to receive compensatory draft picks.

The compensatory picks will be positioned within the third
through seventh rounds based on the value of the compensatory free agents lost.

Compensatory free agents are determined by a formula based
on salary, playing time and postseason honors.
The formula was developed by the NFL Management Council. Not every free agent lost or signed by a club
is covered by this formula.

The Collective Bargaining Agreement limits the number of
compensatory selections to the number of clubs then in the League (32). This year, four clubs: the Los Angeles Rams
(one pick), the Green Bay Packers (one pick), the Pittsburgh Steelers (two
picks), and the Arizona Cardinals (three picks) qualified for compensatory selections
under the net loss formula, but will not receive those picks because the final
numerical values of the CFAs who were lost by those clubs ranked 33rd
through 39th among the final numerical values of all compensatory
selections. Each of those four clubs
will receive compensatory selections for other CFAs lost whose final numerical
values ranked within the top 32.

Compensatory picks may be traded this year. A rule change approved by clubs in 2015 permits
compensatory draft picks to be traded beginning in 2017.

The
following 2017 compensatory draft picks have been determined by the NFL
Management Council for the 2017 NFL Draft, which will be held on April 27-29 in
Philadelphia: ​

* As the result
of League discipline, the New York Giants’ original selection in Round 4
(4-23-130) has been relegated to selection 4-34-140. Because that pick is a regular selection, it
does not appear on the above list of compensatory draft selections.

The compensatory free agents lost and signed in 2016 by the
clubs that will receive compensatory picks in the 2017 Draft: